New diagnostics with wireless pressure monitoring.
Hypertonia and heart failures have become two of the main diseases affecting today's human population. A telemetric controlled sensor implant without a battery is being developed and evaluated with in vivo experiments for use as a powerful tool in long-term post surgical evaluation of heart pressure, body temperature and pulse rate. Its capabilities are reported here.
Goettsche
Thorsten
T
Osypka GmbH, Medizintechnik, Rheinfelden, Germany. t.goettsche@osypka.de
Graefe
Maik
M
Osypka
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D001795:Blood Pressure Determination / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers